Quotes by George William Curtis

George William Curtis

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

Echoes

Journalism

Should

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Country

Loyalty

Memorial Day

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.

Country

Heart

Loyalty

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

Environmental

Knows

Rivers

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

Ignorance

Lost

Tree

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Birthday

Friends

Years

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Anger

Indulge In

Men

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Anger

Mind

Mistress

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Book

Library

Reading

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

Believe

Book

Spiritual

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Achievement

Anger

Appreciate

Autumn

Believe

Birthday

Book

Business

Children

Christmas

Civilization

Common

Conditions

Conquer

Construction

Country

Creativity

Criticism

Cunning

Dark

Dark Ages

Deeds

Determination

Distance

Dream

Echoes

Education

Environmental

Evening

Faith

Firsts

Fitness

Friends

Good Taste

Great Imagination

Half

Hands

Hard Times

Heart

Hero

History

Hundred

Ignorance

Imagination

Indulge In

Inspirational

Intelligent

Journalism

Journey

June

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Quotes by George William Curtis

George William Curtis

A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.

A man’s country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

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